Anna Akhmatova Quotes
That woman I once was, in a black agate necklace, I do not wish to meet again till the Day of Judgement.
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I didn't have outstanding numbers coming out of college and I'm not 6'6 with 230 lbs.
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Thanks to aid, a distressing number of African leaders care little about what their citizens want or need - after all it's the reverse of the Boston tea-party - no representation without taxation.
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I'm not a party guy. I don't carouse very much.
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I was a good decathlete until I got with a coach that really knew how to train specifically for the event... I'd really describe it as like being a juggler; you have ten balls and you're trying to get them all in the air at the same time.
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What I do find enormously gratifying is the reviews my books get from the American press. They are so on the ball compared to anywhere else. It's so satisfying to get a review that conveys the reader understood precisely what I was trying to get at.
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Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle.
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I love people, and the hustle.
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A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship.
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I want to do horror and action, and I'm only being slightly facetious.
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I used to wear miniskirts with my GB top, and sparkly sandals, and the boys would be like: 'Oh my gosh, this girl cannot be serious.'
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I love New York. Love it.
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Almost every Monday I have a charity thing. I like that. I do.
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I'm not in this sport to say a guy can beat me.
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For a kid in London, Hollywood seems like such a mythical place.
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We have to honor our commitments to today's beneficiaries, but we can't solve the growing deficit and debt problems unless we are smart, courageous, and sensible in planning for future.
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I've seen too many ups and downs in the movie industry.
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I think I lost at least 40% of my fans when I became blond. They didn't recognize me anymore.
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I didn't come from the elites. I didn't come from the Northeast or from San Francisco. I came from a southern Ohio steel town, and it's a town that's really struggling in a lot of ways, ways that are indicative of the broader struggles of America's working class.
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There is the fear, common to all English-only speakers, that the chief purpose of foreign languages is to make fun of us. Otherwise, you know, why not just come out and say it?
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I am haunted by what my life would have been had I not had the courage in my early twenties to leave Pittsburgh for New York City and really commit to being a writer. Pittsburgh is both post-industrial and provincial, and the opportunities there are limited. It would have been quite easy to simply drift through life.
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Practice is the price of mastery. Whatever you practice over and over again becomes a new habit of thought and performance.
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Ironically, the more intensive and far-reaching a historian's research, the greater the difficulty of citation. As the mountain of material grows, so does the possibility of error.
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I injured myself politically when I took on Jesse Jackson' in the 1988 presidential campaign. I was too strident. I didn't recognize the emotional tie that he had with all black voters.
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That woman I once was, in a black agate necklace, I do not wish to meet again till the Day of Judgement.
